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Collection, storage and retrieval of data by computer at the High Field Magnet Laboratory, Canberra »

Publication date: 1972

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3655 1885_114986.jpg ANU Press Collection, storage and retrieval of data by computer at the High Field Magnet Laboratory, Canberra Friday, 18 August, 1972 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Sutton, Robert Gervaise

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One father, one blood: descent and group structure among the Melpa people »

Publication date: 1972

The Mount Hagen people of the New Guinea Highlands have no indigenous centralised authority. They have, nonetheless, clear patterns of social order and leadership. The problem of how order is achieved in such societies has exercised anthropologists since the 1940s. It is also one of considerable relevance to New Guinea as it is emerging today. This study builds its case not only on the descent characteristics which have been stressed in African models of uncentralised societies but also on the activities of the {u2018}big-men{u2019} and the specific ideologies of the Hageners. It analyses the symbols they employ to describe their formal groups and concludes that, so far as they have a patrilineal ideology, it asserts group identity and solidarity rather than prescribing recruitment of followers. The work also examines the role of the big-men in promulgating these assertions and equally in recruiting non-patrilineal followers or even ejecting patrilineal ones who come into conflict with group interests. For those interested in social control in uncentralised societies, Melanesian ethnography, or kinship, this book will provide a provocative analysis of descent and group structure in a New Guinea Highlands people and will serve as a pointer to further research in social change in the Highlands.

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Prester John and Europe's discovery of East Asia »

Publication date: 1972

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3167 1885_115104.jpg ANU Press Prester John and Europe's discovery of East Asia Friday, 18 August, 1972 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Rachewiltz, Igor de

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The Politics of urban growth »

Publication date: 1972

This book examines some of the ways in which politics and government have influenced the growth and shape of cities. It shows how urban growth affects economic and social welfare and the administration of all kinds of public services. It also asks how ordinary city dwellers can have more say in the way our cities grow in future. The chapters on the relation between planning, politics and popular participation raise issues of wide interest throughout an increasingly urbanised world. The picture of city growth in practice is based on Australia's largest city - Sydney - its abortive experiments in comprehensive planning, and its halting attempts to make life more bearable for its citizens. The assumption running through the book is that government has been responsible for the nature of the city's growth from the beginning, and that the management of future growth is unthinkable unless government - to the highest level - plays an increasingly responsible part. Some of the studies here show that the structure of government is quite unable to cope adequately with problems of growth. On the contrary, the situation is likely to get further out of hand unless there are changes in political attitudes and organisation, of which only faint signs can be seen at present. The authors have approached urban development from the different standpoints of history, political science, town planning and social administration. They have collaborated closely to present a balanced introduction to a relatively neglected aspect of city growth - the politics of the process. Not only is this essential reading for students of government, town planning and related fields, but it must be of considerable interest to city dwellers everywhere.

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A residence of eleven years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands »

Publication date: 1972

One of the most fascinating of the first-hand accounts of life in the islands of the Pacific before the native cultures became influenced and altered by foreign ways is the story of James O{u2019}Connell, first published in Boston in 1836. O{u2019}Connell was born in Ireland about 1810 and at the age of eleven is said to have set out for Australia as cabin-boy on a convict ship. After six years in Australia, he was shipwrecked on Ponape in the Caroline Islands and, by his own account, spent five years there, living with the natives, adopted by one of the chiefs, and marrying a native wife. O{u2019}Connell evidently had something to hide - probably he was an escaped convict - for much of his story is patently untrue. Nevertheless, his account of the early days of settlement in Australia and above all of the life on Ponape is of absorbing interest. The value of O{u2019}Connell{u2019}s book, which has long been out of print, has been greatly increased by Dr Riesenberg{u2019}s lively introduction and notes in which he sorts out truth from lies and adds useful comment on the narrative. Here is a book to be read not only by Pacific historians and anthropologists, but by all who enjoy an exciting and intriguing account of early adventures in Australia and the Pacific.

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The double-cross system in the war of 1939 to 1945 »

Publication date: 1972

"By means of the double-cross system we actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in this country." This extraordinary claim is made in this British top secret intelligence report written by an Oxford don at the end of World War II. The Masterman Report, now made available for the first time, with the permission of Her Majesty{u2019}s Government, describes the double-cross system and offers an account of its workings which clearly substantiates the claim. The double-cross system was a remarkable apparatus of deception whereby German agents captured in Great Britain were induced to serve the Allied cause by supplying the German officers with information devised and manipulated by British intelligence. In the Masterman Report the theory and practice of this device, which in the end contributed substantially to the Allied military success, is laid out in fascinating detail. The author discloses the careful process by which the captured spy was brought into effective British service and the necessity for total psychological empathy between the British spymaster and the Nazi agent. He describes the problem of providing credible messages for return to the enemy and, ultimately, the use of this "traffic" in the actual conduct of strategic deception. Here at last is the explanation of how Hitler and the German army were fooled into believing that the Allied D Day landings would be made in the Pas de Calais rather than in Normandy. Double agentry was an engrossing game and the stakes were high. This important document in the history of World War II uncovers the complex story of the doublecross system from its origins in 1939 through the early defensive achievements of 1941 and on to the aggressive coups of 1942-43 and of the last years of the war in Europe. Included in the myriad of detail are the activities of the superspies to whom the British gave such astonishing and apt cover names as Tricycle, Garbo, Zigzag, Snow, Lipstick, and Treasure. The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945{u2019} is an official report by a man who played a conspicuous role in this adventure. It is a lucid narrative which combines the scrupulous accuracy of a historical account with the liveliness of drama. Sir John Masterman has produced a document from which could be quarried countless spy-story plots, none stranger than the true events he relates.

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Community and identity: refugee groups in Adelaide »

Publication date: 1972

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3165 1885_115040.jpg ANU Press Community and identity: refugee groups in Adelaide Friday, 18 August, 1972 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Martin, Jean

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Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. »

Publication date: 1972

This book gathers together for the first time in one place annotated descriptions of manuscripts held in Great Britain and Ireland relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. The geographic range of the manuscripts extends from Western Australia to the Galapagos and Juan Fernandez, and a curve embracing the Marianas and the Hawaiian Islands to the Antarctic. In time, the work spans from the earliest Spanish voyages to the Pacific to the 1960s. Contents are as diverse as the letter from a noblewoman seeking a colonial sinecure for her husband, the secret instructions given to Captain Cook to seek Terra Australis, documents regarding the murder of Bishop Patteson, and the papers of a young midshipman who sailed on the notorious Bounty. Any manuscript maps, drawings, and paintings which occur with the manuscripts are noted. The work, which was jointly sponsored by the National Library of Australia and the Australian National University, gives the location of a vast amount of source material held in the great collections of the British Isles, national and regional, and also in the records of societies and businesses, and private holdings, many previously unknown. It describes the repositories, notes many books which have printed the manuscripts in full, records restrictions on the use of manuscripts, and is fully indexed. Its value to scholars is immeasurable.

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The Uighur empire, according to the T'ang dynastic histories: a study in Sino-Uighur relations 744-840 »

Publication date: 1972

One of the most important aspects of China's foreign policy throughout its entire history has been its attempt to contain the threat of the warlike peoples of Central and Northern Asia and, when possible, to turn their vast power to China's advantage. In the years leading up to An Lu-Shan's attempts from 755 to overthrow the ruling T'ang dynasty, the Uighur people amassed great power in the Mongolian steppes, and their military aid contributed largely to the defeat of the Chinese rebels. The Chinese emperors in return sought to gain diplomatic influence over their neighbours by granting princesses in marriage to the Uighur khaghans. This book, originally published as an Occasional Paper of the Centre of Oriental Studies in 1968, contains translations of two long extracts dealing with the Uighurs from the standard histories of the T'ang, extensively annotated and with an introduction explaining the significance of the Uighurs, their history, and their relations with the T'ang. The annotations and introduction are substantially expanded and revised in this new edition. This is a work of great importance for Sinologists and scholars interested in Central Asia and Mongolia.

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This our land »

Publication date: 1972

Australia's Aborigines demand: land rights, an end to discrimination, social and legal justice, education, employment opportunities, housing, health services. If you want to know why read this book!

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